While
we all should--must not ever FORGET,
the ATROCITIES, the DEATH the DESTRUCTION, the DEPRIVATION, the CHAOS, the FUTILITY, the GREED,
the NEEDLESS LOSS, the SACRIFICE, the SUFFERING; we must also REMEMBER. Remembrance day is NOT JUST ABOUT FALLEN
MILITARY—REMEMBRANCE DAY is about ALL SOLDIERS; all VETERANS, all the NAKED CHILDREN—all those who
sacrifice,suffer, AND often DIE because of man’s stupidity.
Forty years ago, June 8, 1972, an Associated
Press photographer, Nick Ut, was shooting photos outside of Trang Bang village,
South Vietnam, when South Vietnamese planes accidentally dropped napalm bombs
on Trang Bang, which had been occupied by North Vietnamese troops. The children
from left to right are: Phan Thanh Tam, younger brother of Kim Phuc, who lost
an eye, Phan Thanh Phouc, youngest brother of Kim Phuc, Kim Phuc, and Kim's
cousins Ho Van Bon, and Ho Thi Ting. Behind them are soldiers of the Vietnam
Army 25th Division, June 8, 1972. (Nick Ut/AP Photo)
In
Gander, Newfoundland, a young Vietnamese woman disembarked from a plane
refuelling from Moscow to Cuba and asked for asylum in Canada. Her name is Kim
Phuc and she was the girl on the famous 1972 photograph that brought the
world's attention to the horrors of the war in Vietnam. Today she is in her
thirties and mother of a baby boy named Huan. She met her husband Bui Huy Toan
when they were both studying in Cuba. Today they live in Toronto and have
become Canadian citizens.
HONOUR the soldiers; ALL THE SOLDIERS. REMEMBER
THE CAUSES. WHY they were and are where
they are.
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